A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices: Power in and Out of Print

by Rebecca Rogers

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary book, Rebecca Rogers explores the complexity of family literacy practices through an in-depth case study of one family, the attendant issues of power and identity, and contemporary social debates about the connections between literacy and society. The study focuses on June Treader and her daughter Vicky, urban African Americans labeled as "low income" and "low literate." Using participant-observation, ethnographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805847847
• ISBN13: 9780805847840
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"